receptacle
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If you do become trustee, you must follow the trust terms and act in your niece’s best interests — and resist being the receptacle for endless familial requests.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026
Fortunately, there’s a constitutional position that serves as a political blame receptacle: the vice president.
From Slate ● Jun. 19, 2026
During an in-flight refueling mission, a rigid pipe is lowered from the tanker part of the aircraft and inserted into a small receptacle on the receiving aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 13, 2026
Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri described her collection as "demonstrating how clothing is a receptacle that affirms cultural, aesthetic and social codes".
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
I was supposed to drop each ticket that I took from a customer into a metal receptacle.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
They slice into the skin and hang receptacles to gather the drip of white sap.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026
These items are receptacles of love and apple sauce.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 1, 2026
When residents realised there was free petrol to be had - people, mostly young men and teenagers, rushed to get buckets and other receptacles to collect the precious liquid.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2024
The effort also included the deployment of more than 10,000 high-security blue boxes in high-risk locations, and the installation of nearly 30,000 electronic locks on mail receptacles.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
The flowers were unnecessary, for at two o'clock a greenhouse arrived from Gatsby's, with innumerable receptacles to contain it.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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